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Men Over 35: Best Books of the 2010s
The best books of the 2010s (2010-2019) as voted on by:
• men,
• at least 35 years old,
• who've read and ranked at least a few of the books on the list.
Over 35 lists:
Over 35: Best Books of All Time
Over 35: Best Books of the 21st Century
Over 35: Best Books of the 2010s
Over 35: Favorite Authors of All Time
Men Over 35 lists:
Men Over 35: Best Books of All Time
Men Over 35: Best Books of the 21st Century
Men Over 35: Best Books of the 1980s
Men Over 35: Best Books of the 1990s
Men Over 35: Best Books of the 2000s
Men Over 35: Best Books of the 2010s
Men Over 35: Best Books of the 2020s
Men Over 35: Favorite Authors of All Time
Everyone: Best Books (for comparison):
Decade: 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, 2020s
Century: 20th, 21st
All-Time: Best Books Ever
Authors: Best Authors Ever
• men,
• at least 35 years old,
• who've read and ranked at least a few of the books on the list.
Over 35 lists:
Over 35: Best Books of All Time
Over 35: Best Books of the 21st Century
Over 35: Best Books of the 2010s
Over 35: Favorite Authors of All Time
Men Over 35 lists:
Men Over 35: Best Books of All Time
Men Over 35: Best Books of the 21st Century
Men Over 35: Best Books of the 1980s
Men Over 35: Best Books of the 1990s
Men Over 35: Best Books of the 2000s
Men Over 35: Best Books of the 2010s
Men Over 35: Best Books of the 2020s
Men Over 35: Favorite Authors of All Time
Everyone: Best Books (for comparison):
Decade: 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, 2020s
Century: 20th, 21st
All-Time: Best Books Ever
Authors: Best Authors Ever
Score
A book’s total score is based on multiple factors, including the number of people who have voted for it and how highly those voters ranked the book.
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Educated
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4.47 avg rating — 1,792,136 ratings
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Ready Player One
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Ernest Cline (Goodreads Author)
4.23 avg rating — 1,274,378 ratings
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The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
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4.36 avg rating — 260,662 ratings
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The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present
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David Treuer (Goodreads Author)
4.23 avg rating — 6,487 ratings
score: 97,
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Just Mercy
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Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel's Targeted Assassinations
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4.41 avg rating — 9,399 ratings
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The Martian
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Andy Weir (Goodreads Author)
4.42 avg rating — 1,249,951 ratings
score: 94,
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The Wise Man's Fear (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #2)
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Patrick Rothfuss (Goodreads Author)
4.55 avg rating — 608,107 ratings
score: 93,
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A Dance with Dragons (A Song of Ice and Fire, #5)
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4.34 avg rating — 728,373 ratings
score: 92,
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How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease
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Michael Greger (Goodreads Author)
4.42 avg rating — 49,054 ratings
score: 91,
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SEAL Team Six: Memoirs of an Elite Navy SEAL Sniper
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4.06 avg rating — 18,057 ratings
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13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened In Benghazi
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Mitchell Zuckoff (Goodreads Author)
4.30 avg rating — 24,949 ratings
score: 89,
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No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden
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4.03 avg rating — 57,139 ratings
score: 88,
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Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden--from 9/11 to Abbottabad
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4.11 avg rating — 4,534 ratings
score: 87,
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Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
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4.46 avg rating — 354,926 ratings
score: 86,
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Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth
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3.86 avg rating — 72,275 ratings
score: 85,
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The Gene: An Intimate History
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4.35 avg rating — 54,401 ratings
score: 84,
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Steve Jobs
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Walter Isaacson (Goodreads Author)
4.15 avg rating — 1,337,803 ratings
score: 83,
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The Red Rising Trilogy Series Collection #1-3
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Pierce Brown (Goodreads Author)
4.63 avg rating — 1,220 ratings
score: 82,
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The Silo Saga Omnibus (Silo, #1-3)
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Hugh Howey (Goodreads Author)
4.59 avg rating — 4,280 ratings
score: 81,
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The Nightingale
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Kristin Hannah (Goodreads Author)
4.64 avg rating — 1,944,479 ratings
score: 80,
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Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls: Essays, Etc.
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3.85 avg rating — 149,843 ratings
score: 79,
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Empire of the Summer Moon
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4.25 avg rating — 65,007 ratings
score: 78,
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American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History
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4.03 avg rating — 139,361 ratings
score: 77,
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The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity
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4.43 avg rating — 11,005 ratings
score: 76,
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Triumphs of Experience: The Men of the Harvard Grant Study
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4.15 avg rating — 1,160 ratings
score: 75,
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Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town
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Jon Krakauer (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 57,997 ratings
score: 74,
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The Exodus
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4.05 avg rating — 637 ratings
score: 73,
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The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
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3.99 avg rating — 63,196 ratings
score: 72,
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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4.34 avg rating — 1,215,415 ratings
score: 71,
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10% Happier
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Dan Harris (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 113,850 ratings
score: 70,
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Recursion
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Blake Crouch (Goodreads Author)
4.17 avg rating — 295,842 ratings
score: 69,
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Origin (Robert Langdon, #5)
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Dan Brown (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 350,430 ratings
score: 68,
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Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1)
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Pierce Brown (Goodreads Author)
4.27 avg rating — 682,130 ratings
score: 67,
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Golden Son (Red Rising Saga, #2)
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Pierce Brown (Goodreads Author)
4.49 avg rating — 416,605 ratings
score: 66,
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Morning Star (Red Rising Saga, #3)
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Pierce Brown (Goodreads Author)
4.53 avg rating — 340,876 ratings
score: 65,
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Wool (Silo #1)
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Hugh Howey (Goodreads Author)
4.23 avg rating — 266,639 ratings
score: 64,
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Shift (Silo, #2)
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Hugh Howey (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 146,138 ratings
score: 63,
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Dust (Silo, #3)
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Hugh Howey (Goodreads Author)
4.23 avg rating — 130,927 ratings
score: 62,
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Dark Matter
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Blake Crouch (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 677,312 ratings
score: 61,
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The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail—But Some Don't
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3.97 avg rating — 52,024 ratings
score: 60,
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Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
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Cheryl Strayed (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 854,531 ratings
score: 59,
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All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
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Martha Wells (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 344,197 ratings
score: 58,
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Artificial Condition (The Murderbot Diaries, #2)
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Martha Wells (Goodreads Author)
4.25 avg rating — 199,144 ratings
score: 57,
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Rogue Protocol (The Murderbot Diaries, #3)
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Martha Wells (Goodreads Author)
4.24 avg rating — 159,469 ratings
score: 56,
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Exit Strategy (The Murderbot Diaries, #4)
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Martha Wells (Goodreads Author)
4.37 avg rating — 140,704 ratings
score: 55,
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Dragon Teeth
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3.86 avg rating — 47,346 ratings
score: 54,
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The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, #1)
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Brandon Sanderson (Goodreads Author)
4.67 avg rating — 636,062 ratings
score: 53,
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Inferno (Robert Langdon, #4)
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Dan Brown (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 583,442 ratings
score: 52,
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Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
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4.11 avg rating — 3,625,416 ratings
score: 51,
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Leviathan Wakes (The Expanse, #1)
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James S.A. Corey (Goodreads Author)
4.31 avg rating — 307,705 ratings
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A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms (The Tales of Dunk and Egg, #1-3)
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4.25 avg rating — 109,774 ratings
score: 49,
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Wool (Wool, #1)
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Hugh Howey (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 106,392 ratings
score: 48,
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Calypso
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4.10 avg rating — 143,935 ratings
score: 47,
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Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 331,086 ratings
score: 46,
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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption
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4.39 avg rating — 992,863 ratings
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Micro
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3.53 avg rating — 40,504 ratings
score: 44,
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Words of Radiance (The Stormlight Archive, #2)
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Brandon Sanderson (Goodreads Author)
4.76 avg rating — 461,449 ratings
score: 43,
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Oathbringer (The Stormlight Archive, #3)
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Brandon Sanderson (Goodreads Author)
4.61 avg rating — 334,418 ratings
score: 42,
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A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership
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4.09 avg rating — 49,189 ratings
score: 41,
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Norse Mythology
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Neil Gaiman (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 339,457 ratings
score: 40,
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Gone Girl
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Gillian Flynn (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 3,378,296 ratings
score: 39,
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Delta-v (Delta-v, #1)
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Daniel Suarez (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 10,007 ratings
score: 38,
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Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
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James Clear (Goodreads Author)
4.33 avg rating — 1,213,566 ratings
score: 37,
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Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
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David Grann (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 430,629 ratings
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Artemis
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Andy Weir (Goodreads Author)
3.69 avg rating — 312,475 ratings
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Change Agent
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Daniel Suarez (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 8,008 ratings
score: 34,
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Fire & Blood (A Targaryen History, #1)
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4.05 avg rating — 139,234 ratings
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The Fault in Our Stars
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John Green (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 5,612,489 ratings
score: 32,
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Little Fires Everywhere
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Celeste Ng (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 1,289,093 ratings
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Kill Decision
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Daniel Suarez (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 11,856 ratings
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Summer Frost (Forward Collection, #2)
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Blake Crouch (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 28,364 ratings
score: 29,
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Randomize (Forward Collection, #6)
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Andy Weir (Goodreads Author)
3.53 avg rating — 32,332 ratings
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Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents
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4.37 avg rating — 82,708 ratings
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